Collection: Canaan Morse

Canaan Morse is a translator, poet, and editor. He cofounded the literary quarterly Pathlight: New Chinese Writing and has contributed translations of Chinese prose and poetry to The Kenyon Review, The Baffler, and other journals. He is currently editing two anthologies of Chinese literature and translating a collection of the work of the Taiwanese poet Yang Xiaobin into English. In 2016 he translated Ge Fei’s The Invisibility Cloak for NYRB Classics.

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